CCP built African Union HQ Building for 'free', installed Huawei Cameras Spying for 5 years

[duluxe]

Why worry about what China is doing? The Africans are not stupid ....on the grand scheme of things, the trade-offs are worth it. If America offer similar deal, the Africans would take it too. But the West will never do so.

CCP built free palaces for the corrupted african leaders and chieftians.

 

[Tarkett]

China saving the world de woh!

 

[JohnTan]

China “gifted” the African Union a headquarters building and then allegedly bugged it for state secrets​

https://qz.com/africa/1192493/china-spied-on-african-union-headquarters-for-five-years

China’s government has denied reports that it spied on the servers at the African Union’s Chinese-built headquarters for more than five years, gaining access to confidential information.

In an investigation published by French newspaper Le Monde, China, which also paid and built the computer network at the AU, allegedly inserted a backdoor (in French) that allowed it to transfer data. The hack wasn’t detected until Jan. 2017 when technicians noticed that between midnight and 2 am every night, there was a peak in data usage even though the building was empty. After investigating, it was found that the continental organization’s confidential data was being copied on to servers in Shanghai.

China’s ambassador to the AU dismissed the reports as “absurd” and “preposterous.” Kuang Weilin told reporters in Ethiopia that it was “very difficult to understand” Le Monde’s claims and that the story was certain to “create problems for China-Africa relations.”

The revelations come as African presidents convene in Addis Ababa to attend the continental summit on governance. In 2012, when the AU building was completed, it was signified as a symbolic gesture aimed at solidifying Sino-Africa relations. The landmark 20-story office tower overlooking a pearl-shaped conference center was “a gift” from the Chinese government to help African nations integrate better and improve their institutional capacity.

But the alleged data theft puts a spin on that rosy affair and might strain the relationship between the two sides. China is heavily involved in Africa, with its companies and entrepreneurs conducting trade and investing heavily in African countries. Chinese aid has also been blamed for propping up authoritarian regimes, constructing shoddy roads and infrastructure built by imported Chinese workers, and focusing mainly on countries home to oil, minerals, and other resources that China needs. But China is also cultivating the next generation of African leaders, with Beijing taking thousands of African leaders, bureaucrats, students, and business people to China for training and education.

Since the discovery of the hack, the AU has allegedly acquired its own servers and refused Chinese offers to reconfigure them. Algerian and Ethiopian officials also combed through the building, checking for any suspicious materials and microphones.

Why not use Google servers like the rest of the civilized world? Surely Google wouldn't spy on us even though they took a lot of Pentagon money.

 

[duluxe]

Why not use Google servers like the rest of the civilized world? Surely Google wouldn't spy on us even though they took a lot of Pentagon money.

The african leaders and chieftians are corrupted, CCP bribed them.

You turn on geo location on your mobile phone, google collecting our location data. Google will provide you a monthly report timeline of the places you visited. If you visit geylang, the data is captured too. Our data collected by google is for data analytics and marketing optimization. Our data won't be volunteered to CIA or PAP by google, but CIA or PAP may request google to provide data for state security investigation.

Google is a private company. CCP has political bureau members inside Huawei, Huawei is a state sponsored company.

 

[JohnTan]

The african leaders and chieftians are corrupted, CCP bribed them.

You turn on geo location on your mobile phone, google collecting our location data. Google will provide you a monthly report timeline of the places you visited. If you visit geylang, the data is captured too. Our data collected by google is for data analytics and marketing optimization. Our data won't be volunteered to CIA or PAP by google, but CIA or PAP may request google to provide data for state security investigation.

Google is a private company. CCP has political bureau members inside Huawei, Huawei is a state sponsored company.

Google has been providing data to NSA and CIA upon private request for a very long time. But since we don't have to worry about a missile strike or NSA selling our commercial secrets to our competitors, we just live with it.

 

[duluxe]

Google has been providing data to NSA and CIA upon private request for a very long time. But since we don't have to worry about a missile strike or NSA selling our commercial secheyrets to our competitors, we just live with it.

Yeap, we have more to worry about CCP. In 2018, CCP hacked into Singhealth Server to steal our boss LHL's health record. Ironically, Xi's poo-poo during BRICS meeting was not left in south africa. They brought his faeces back to china, lol.

 

[Tarkett]

China saves the world de woh!